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Rawson Duo Concert Series, 2018 - 19 May: Brahms & Dvorak What’s Next? Rawson Duo Concert Series, 2018 - 19 May: Brahms & Dvorak . and the Rawson Trio! Friday and Sunday, May 3 & 5 at 2pm, cellist Ian Rawson will be coming up from southern California to join us for his second appearance on our concert series, performing two of the greatest masterworks of the violin, cello, and piano repertoire: the magnificent Piano Trio in C Major, Op. 87, by Johannes Brahms and Antonin Dvorak’s epic Trio in F minor, Op. 65. Departing from our usual passion for the unknowns, occasionally we go for the mainstream gold. What a program – and with our fine-cellist son to boot! (please note, reservations are $30 for a special event with guest performer this time; when it’s just us, our usual duo concerts will remain $25) And beyond that? . as the fancy strikes (check those emails and website) Reservations: Seating is limited and arranged through advanced paid reservation, $30 (as per special event with guest performer) Contact Alan or Sandy Rawson, email [email protected] or call 379-3449. Notice of event details, dates and times when scheduled will be sent via email or ground mail upon request. Be sure to be on the Rawsons’ mailing list. For more information, visit: www.rawsonduo.com H A N G I N G O U T A T T H E R A W S O N S (take a look around) Harold Nelson has had a lifelong passion for art, particularly photo images and collage. It sustained him through years of working in the federal bureaucracy with his last sixteen in Washington DC. He started using his current collage technique in 2004, two years before retirement from his first career and his move from Virginia to Port Townsend. His art is shown frequently at the Northwind Arts Center and other local venues. Harold’s 2012 triptych, “The Big Picture,” overlooks the piano, and “Paul’s Mountain” (2011) hangs beside the woodstove. A recent copy of Gourmet magazine made its way through the shredder to be reworked by Harold’s hand into the triangular piece adorning the kitchen. www.hnelsonart.com HOUSE NOTES Please, no food or drink near the piano and performing area. No photography during performance, and be sure to turn off all electronics, cell phones, etc. A note about chairs ~ following the music If you would like to move your chair out of the way for the reception (optional), please lean them against the wall on the carpet remnant next to the wood stove and not on the slippery floor. Any extras may be placed in the nearby closet or remain setup for use out in the room. Thanks! Cough drops are provided for your convenience. At the home of Alan and Sandy Rawson, 10318 Rhody Drive, Chimacum WA Friday and Sunday, March 29 & 31, 2 pm Cover image: Cortona, Toscany ~ Rawson Duo on the road, June, 2000 T h e R a w s o n D u o Bella Italia Specializing in Romantic and early twentieth-century works, the Rawson Duo has given numerous recitals on college campuses and community performing arts series Sonata in D Major (ca. 1710 / 1920) Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) across the United States and Canada. The Rawsons now reside in Chimacum where they perform throughout the year in the intimate setting of their home located on 7.5 acres, modern piano realization by Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) bringing to life rarely heard works celebrated with warm hospitality. Violinist Alan Rawson first pursued his music interests in his junior year in high Moderato (a fantasia) / Allegro moderato school as a self-taught folk guitarist, recorder player, and madrigal singer. Classical Violin Largo / Vivace studies were begun at Cañada Junior College in Redwood City California, since their program did not include Country and Western fiddling. He received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Arts degrees from San Francisco State University and completed his doctorate degree at the University of Colorado in Boulder in violin performance studying Minuetto dalla “Scarlattiana” (1927) Alfredo Casella with Oswald Lehnert while developing a passionate interest in Rocky Mountain cycling (1883-1947) and cross country skiing. He has served on the music faculties of Concordia College in to Mario Corti Moorhead, Minnesota and the University of Idaho in Moscow, and has recently retired from Minnesota State University Moorhead where he directed the University Orchestra and taught upper strings. He was concertmaster of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony for twenty years and appeared as a featured orchestral soloist several times performing dalla Rhapsodia Napoletana Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) works by Tchaikowsky, Mozart, Sibelius, and Bruch, among others. “Piedigrotta 1924” Mario Corti, arr. (1882-1957) Alan has a passionate interest in exploring the music of past great composers, now all but lost to obscurity, and he is actively researching, locating and scanning public domain Notte ‘e luna (night and the moon) scores, making these freely available to the internet community worldwide. Tarantella scura (dark tarantella) A native of Fargo, ND, Sandy Rawson completed her Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance at the University of Minnesota and continued her studies at the Musik Akademie in Vienna, Austria. During her long tenure in the Fargo Moorhead area, she was a highly active accompanist and large ensemble pianist performing with all the major ~ l’ intervallo ~ organizations including opera, symphony, choral, ballet, universities and public schools. She frequently appeared on faculty and guest artist recitals at the three local universities, NDSU, Sonata in la (1919) Ildebrando Pizzetti MSUM, and Concordia College. An active church organist from the age of 14, she held the post of organist at the First Congregational Church in Fargo for 25 years and more recently at (1880-1968) Sequim Community Church for 12 years until the termination of their traditional service. to Mario Corti Sandy’s love of music is equaled by her love for cooking. A professionally trained 1. Tempestoso (stormy) chef, having lived several years in Europe and Japan, international cuisine has been a lifelong passion. Today’s Bella Italia reception menu: 2. Preghiera per gl’innocenti: Molto Largo (“prayer of the innocent”) e —— A N T I P A S T I DOLCI —— 3. Vivo e fresco (lively and fresh) Il Tricolore – cake with colors of the Italian flag Torta Rustica – tart filled with cheese and salami Violinist Mario Corti (1882-1957), born in Guastalla, Reggio Emilia Peperoni Ripieni – sweet peppers filled with sausage (near Parma), studied violin and composition at Liceo Musicale in Polpette di Melanzane – eggplant “meatballs” (vegan) Bologna, became professor of violin at Parma Conservatory in 1907, Biscotti di Pinoli – pine nut cookies followed by Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin in 1914, until Italy’s entrance into WW1 (April, 1915), returned to Crostini Piccante – savory spread on crostini Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome from then on. His extensive Certosino di Bologna – fruit cakes from Bologna (vegetarian) performing career was devoted mainly to revival of Italian baroque Palla di Neve al Cioccolato – chocolate “snowballs” violin music and promoting contemporary Italian composers, receiving numerous dedications and premiere performances. (1926 photo) An excerpt from a lengthy article, Ildebrando Pizzetti by Guido M. Gatti and Theodore Baker that a few appeared in The Musical Quarterly, January, 1923 describes the Sonata in la: Bits of Interest* Its composition was begun in September, 1918, at a time when the PIEDIGROTTA Oh sole mio . Santa Lucia . Italians over the centuries have taken flames of war were nearing extinction, and was finished during the winter song to their hearts like no other, and the Neapolitan song of the Piedigrotta festival is at the center of the following year, at the dawn of a period of calm and spiritual of their celebrated passion. From The Italy of the Italians (1906) Helen Zimmern explains. refreshment for our life and its joys; and in truth, his advance from the “. the Neapolitan songs have a cachet that is all their own, and reflects the hot, passionate initial period to the close seems to conform to the march of these exterior temperament of the region which is in such sharp contrast with the cooler, more sentimental and events, in so far—let us hasten to add—as it does not attempt in any slightly cynical Tuscan. The prototype of the modern Neapolitan canzone can be sought in the way to express musically the extrinsic phenomenon, but rather the most popular "Funiculi, funicula" of Denza, all alive with brio and sparkling with animal joy. intimate drama of the musician’s soul-life as it passed through the crises of suffering and gained renewed confidence in company with that of all “Every year some new songs enrich the popular Neapolitan mankind. The drama concludes—and no one having knowledge of the repertoire. At the annual fete of the Madonna of Piedigrotta, a Pizzettian ethos could imagine its concluding otherwise—in a renewed village just outside Naples, that falls in the summer are first heard vision of serenity and tenderness wherein lies the profession of faith the songs that will be sung in all the length and breadth of Italy “that it is good to live.” In the first movement (tempestoso) the pianoforte bust of Mario Pizzetti during the coming year. It is a species of popular competition in creates, with an incisive theme that grows more and more inexorable, ca. 1920 which of late even noted composers have taken part. It is amusing verging on an obsession, the agitated background of the world in tumult, while the violin laments, to be present at this festival and to listen to the returning crowds like some weak soul prostrated by the tempest, with a theme of agonized fear.
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